Antonio McKay
Antonio McKay ( Ricardo Antonio McKay, born February 9, 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia ) is a retired American sprinter. The specialist for the 400 -meter run twice won Olympic gold in the 4 x 400 - meter relay.
Life
After winning in 1984, the U.S. elimination fights, he was very successful at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles as a finisher in the 4 x 400 - meter relay, he secured the U.S. team along with Sunder Nix, Ray Armstead and Alonzo Babers the gold medal, and in single race he won bronze in 44.71 s behind his teammate Alonzo Babers ( 44.27 s ) and Gabriel Tiacoh from the Ivory Coast ( 44.54 s ).
His second relay gold he won three years later at the 1987 World Championships in Rome ( in the cast Danny Everett, Roddie Haley, McKay and Harry Reynolds ). As a single runner he was not there at the start.
A year earlier, at the 1986 Moscow inaugural Goodwill Games, he was about 400 m victorious and thus won his first gold medal in an individual race. It was followed by two more at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 1987 in Indianapolis and 1989 in Budapest.
At the national level, he was especially successful in the hall: he won in 1987, 1988, 1989 and again in 1993 For outdoor championships he could out of a win at the University Championships 1984 - McKay started for Georgia Tech - not win a title. : In 1986, he was sixth in 1987 and third parties.
In the hall he ran beyond a world record in the 400 m ( 45.79 s, 1984) and a world record over 300 m ( 32.51 s, 1987). At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, he won another gold medal in the relay. However, he was only used in the heats; the final of denied Danny Everett, Steve Lewis, Kevin Robinzine and Harry Reynolds.
1990 was found in a drug test phenylpropanolamine at McKay, after which he was banned for three months. On appeal, the ban was lifted on the grounds that his doctor had prescribed him a flu medication without knowing that it contained the substance. His last international season success was the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in 1991 in Seville.
Antonio McKay is 1,80 m tall and weighed 76 kg in his playing days. He's now at a private high school in Atlanta as a coach and was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.
Personal Best
- 400 m: 44.69 s, August 13, 1986, Zurich Hall: 45,59 s, March 5, 1989, Budapest